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Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766

Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,399 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($60,149). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$111k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$28k
3/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 does

Mission

Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 is organized to support the students, parents, teachers, and admisntrative staff of The Menlo-Atherton High School Robotics program by raising funds, conducting events, and recruiting volunteers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Robot Components

    $80,825 spent
    76% of program spending

  2. Pit Equipment

    $15,027 spent
    14% of program spending

  3. Travel

    $9,903 spent
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,755.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $13k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
4
3
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766.

59%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 84% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

80% of Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NH
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102k to it.

Operating margin−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

GRT Boosters78%Palo Alto Youth Robotics Association77%San Jose Blazing Bulldogs Robotics Booster Club77%Pioneer High School Robotics Inc77%Fremont Institute of Robotics Education76%Woodside High School Robotics Boosters Inc76%Beyer Robotics Boosters Club75%San Benito County Robotics Inc75%

Nationally

GRT Boosters78%Wildcat5e FRC Robotics Inc78%Harrison Highschool Robotics Boosters Inc78%First Robotics Team 335778%Palo Alto Youth Robotics Association77%San Jose Blazing Bulldogs Robotics Booster Club77%Pioneer High School Robotics Inc77%Tonkabots Booster Club77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766?
Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,399 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($60,149). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $102,399 in grants to Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,149 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Menlo-Atherton Robotics FIRST Team 766 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing